CLARITI Inclusion Core Program Manager

This position is located in the lab of Dr. Ozioma Okonkwo, within the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

Dr. Okonkwo co-leads the Inclusion Core of the new CLARITI grant, which is focused on conducting a standardized, longitudinal imaging and plasma protocol on 2,000 participants across NIA-funded Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers, who will be deeply profiled with amyloid, tau, vascular ischemic, and neurodegeneration signatures of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders. The successful candidate in this position will have managerial oversight of the Inclusion Core and its UW-Madison team members. They will oversee timelines and milestones to ensure that targeted deadlines are met. Primary areas of responsibility include working closely with the other team members and the community partners to ensure enrollment and engagement goals are met for all components of the study, facilitating the development and deployment of educational and training materials for all team members, keeping regulatory and budgetary documents compliant, preparing progress reports, implementing quality assurance standards, liaising with other components of the CLARITI grant, and actively participating in the hiring and supervising of team members.

• 35% Coordinates the daily activities and contracts related to one or more research program(s)
• 10% Assists in the development, coordination, and facilitation of trainings and workshops for internal and external audiences to disseminate research program developments and information
• 10% Plans, develops, and implements processes and protocols to support research aims
• 20% Serves as a unit liaison and subject matter expert among internal and external stakeholder groups, collaborates across disciplines and functional areas, provides program information, and promotes the accomplishments and developments of scholars and research initiatives
• 5% Monitors program budget(s) and approves unit expenditures
• 5% Develops policies, procedures, and institutional agreements on behalf of the program
• 15% Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of some Okonkwo Lab employees

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Preferred
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred:
Prior experience with community engagement and diverse populations.
Prior experience being part of an academic clinical research group.
Prior experience with employee supervision.
Prior experience with project management tools and systems.

Interested candidates need not satisfy each of the foregoing preferences to apply.

The applicant should have excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), strong attention to detail, the flexibility to work both collaboratively and independently, and should understand critical aspects of research project management, including achieving deadlines, enrollment, retention, community outreach, regulatory compliance, data management, and staff supervision.

Full Time: 100%

This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.

Ongoing/Renewable

Minimum $65,500 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
The starting salary for the position is $65,500 but is negotiable based on experience and qualifications. Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and sick leave; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits. Benefits information can be found at (https://hr.wisc.edu/benefits/).

University sponsorship is not available for this position, including transfers of sponsorship. The selected applicant will be responsible for ensuring their continuous eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without the need of an employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment. This position is an ongoing position that will require continuous work eligibility. UW-Madison is not an E-Verify employer, and therefore, is not eligible to employ F1 STEM OPT Extension participants. If you are selected for this position you must provide proof of work authorization and eligibility to work.

This position has been identified as a position of trust with access to vulnerable populations. The selected candidate will be required to pass an initial caregiver check to be eligible for employment under the Wisconsin Caregiver Law and every four years.

To apply for this position, please click on the "Apply Now" button. You will be asked to upload a current resume/CV and a cover letter briefly describing your qualifications and experience.

Sarah Lose
srlose@medicine.wisc.edu
608-265-6701
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

Research Program Coordinator(RE123)

A53-MEDICAL SCHOOL/MEDICINE/GER-AD DEV

Academic Staff-Renewable

309431-AS